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clanlord t1_j5j8qtd wrote

Reply to comment by 3434rich in Nearly 220 million people in Pakistan without power after countrywide outage | CNN Business by calbert1735

fertile land caused this explosion from many centuries. This is why china india pak bangladesh region is populated.

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MostValuable t1_j5jdhcu wrote

A big reason they have more people is because they grew rice instead of wheat before globalization. Rice per acre provides almost 3x the calories as wheat so it can sustain many more people per acre of farmland.

Today corn is king which is why you see so many products containing corn derivatives

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Grace_Alcock t1_j5k3ggh wrote

And competent centralized govt for a few millennia. Apparently more competent than right now…

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